Getting ViP to ignore NOTES.INI, and recognize only one ID file (ViP Specific)
At 04 NOV 1997 01:53:10PM Ken Wachs wrote:
Dear ViP Support:
I have 7 or 8 people using a ViP application to do scheduling on Notes and SQL Server. Each person needs to use their Notes workstation for mail and other stuff, and I would like to make the scheduling application (in ViP) separate from their Notes user ID. Is it possible to have ViP disregard the NOTES.INI file either through a feature or a programming "trick", and always default to a specific user ID?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Ken Wachs
At 04 NOV 1997 02:49PM John Averell Revelation wrote:
In short, No. ViP has nothing to do with the Notes ID
file. Notes itself accesses this file when the Notes
session is
opened, and must have a valid ID to proceed. If
you are running ViP from a workstation, the Notes
DLLs must be accessible (through the local PATH
variable). It may be possible to point to a common
Network installation of NOTES, with its own NOTES.INI
file and ID file, as long as the local ViP does not
"know" about the local NOTES installation. You should
probably have a "pointer" NOTES.INI in the Windows
directory that points to the network location of the
real NOTES.INI. Also, there is a way to suppress
password prompts by an appropriate entry in the
NOTES.INI file and in the ViP.INI file on the workstation.
(see Knowledge Base on suppressing prompts.)
A much easier way is to install ViP on the server,
and schedule through it. ViP 2.5 includes an
Internet server/CGI program that allow scheduling
ViP apps on an NT server from web clients.
I haven't tried some of this myself, so good luck.